Quotes About Republicans

#1. There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.

Tim Robbins

#2. Republicans have pounced. They're outraged. They say, 'How dare you lie about caring for the people who got hurt in the war we lied them into?'

Bill Maher

#3. Republicans like Fox News and NASCAR and Democrats like MSNBC and Starbucks." "Simple as that?" I asked, and he said, "Absolutely.

Jennifer Close

#4. Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

James Surowiecki

#5. Republicans are definitely pro-birth - they'll do everything they can to make sure that that baby comes out, regardless of how it got in, but are they pro-life? Can you be pro-life and vote to cut funding that supports the life of a child?

Jennifer Granholm

#6. I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are.

George W. Bush

#7. If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

Ethan Zuckerman

#8. Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all.

Cedric Richmond

#9. Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.

Rand Paul

#10. The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.

Adlai Stevenson

#11. When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

Rick Perry

#12. Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.

Patty Murray

#13. Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

Arthur Ashe

#14. Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.

Bernie Sanders

#15. The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

Barbra Streisand

#16. For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.

Mara Liasson

#17. The Republicans won the women's vote in 2010. It was the first time since Ronald Reagan that the Republicans had won the women's vote. And when you look at the issues that really drove women to the Republican Party, it's been the issues related to the economy, to jobs, the debt.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#18. I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

Jesse Helms

#19. Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.

Thomas Sowell

#20. The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations.

Dennis Prager

#21. While all Republicans acknowledge that there were mistakes made during the Bush Administration, again the continuous pointing a finger at President Bush has gotten tiresome.

Marsha Blackburn

#22. Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well ... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.

Gwen Moore

#23. Young Republicans are a very, very important constituency. Along with little old ladies, they provide the foot soldiers for the Republican Party.

Roger Stone

#24. I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes.

Timothy Noah

#25. The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.

Mara Liasson

#26. The fights I fought ... cost a lot
the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

William J. Clinton

#27. I always get a little bit frustrated with Republicans, because we always talk about job creators, and really who we should be talking to is their employees.

Raul Labrador

#28. I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

Charles Evers

#29. Voting for the Green Party is how you say 'Up Yours!' to the Republicans and Democrats.

Steven Magee

#30. As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

Mara Liasson

#31. I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago - until the Republicans brought them back.

Elizabeth Warren

#32. When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

John Breaux

#33. Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

P. J. O'Rourke

#34. The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes, the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path.

Phyllis Schlafly

#35. I think to the extent Republicans depart from the historic commitment, we do so at our peril.

Mike Pence

#36. Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin wrote a book.

Jay Leno

#37. Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide.

David Letterman

#38. What did Republicans get for 16 days of a government shutdown with people being hurt? We have absolutely nothing to show for it, other than a damaged brand.

Trey Gowdy

#39. Many people feel he did cross a line in a way he hadn't even done before and also that Republicans had to speak out because they believe Trump poses a danger to the party.

Mara Liasson

#40. Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Frank Zappa

#41. The baby Jesus was the last homeless person the Republicans liked.

Andy Borowitz

#42. The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti-Rev. Wright or, if Sen. Clinton wins, anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail. This model has already been tested with disastrous results.

Newt Gingrich

#43. [If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.

Greg Gutfeld

#44. I don't make any secret of the fact that I'm closer to the Republicans than to the Democrats. But even under a President Hillary Clinton, US foreign policy toward Moscow would probably be more critical and confrontational. I hope it isn't too late for that.

Garry Kasparov

#45. Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

Jack Kemp

#46. What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

Nancy Pelosi

#47. When I got to the Senate, I started working with Republicans. I think I practically worked with every single one of them, and a lot of them were on record talking about what a good colleague I am and how I like to get things done.

Hillary Clinton

#48. This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Dennis Kucinich

#49. When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.

Charlie Melancon

#50. Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

Mara Liasson

#51. Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.

Howard Dean

#52. Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay marriage and so forth.

John Zerzan

#53. Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#54. I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.

Ted Cruz

#55. Republicans: the party that brought us 'Just Say No.' First as a drug policy, then as their entire platform.

Stephen Colbert

#56. There is a limitation on debate, which is unlike other bills, for 20 hours, but there is no limitation on amendments. In other words, Republicans if they wanted to, and I suspect they do, could offer literally thousands of amendments and keep Senate in session for weeks and months.

Rick Santorum

#57. You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.

Ron Reagan

#58. The Democrats are incapable of even being accused of violating political correctness, so they don't even worry about it. The Democrats have really grown accustomed, however, to Republicans not attacking, not criticizing them.

Rush Limbaugh

#59. Rand Paul and Chris Christie both said vaccinations should be a choice, not a government mandate. Because when have Republicans ever told people what they could do with their own bodies?

Bill Maher

#60. It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.

Gwen Moore

#61. Here in New York City, it's cold. It's so cold the Republicans want to use the Keystone Pipeline to deliver soup.

David Letterman

#62. Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them!

Bill Maher

#63. While the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.

Will Rogers

#64. Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair to him. He hasn't lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him.

Rush Limbaugh

#65. The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

P. J. O'Rourke

#66. The Republicans could mess up a two car parade

William J. Clinton

#67. Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root.

Ari Fleischer

#68. It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

Ted Cruz

#69. Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the ... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

Gloria Steinem

#70. In the very next election, the American people elected 63 new Republicans to the House of Representatives - the largest sweep of Congress for any party since 1948. Even liberal Massachusetts elected a Republican senator solely because of his vow to vote against Obamacare.

Ann Coulter

#71. The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

Will Rogers

#72. Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

George Clooney

#73. Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.

Timothy Noah

#74. Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.

Juan Williams

#75. So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me ... besides Republicans.

Joe Dante

#76. I am very sure of the ground I stand on. I am also very sure that it is the path shared by republicans across this island genuinely interested in building a new agreed Ireland: republicans who put Ireland before ego, criminality, and self-gain.

Martin McGuinness

#77. Let's not get caught up in the D.C. trap of Democrats versus Republicans. When you're in Alaska it's about what's important for Alaska.

Mark Begich

#78. They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally.

Bill Bryson

#79. The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

Ron Suskind

#80. Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

Zach Wamp

#81. What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

Stuart Rothenberg

#82. If you want to find the cool, anti-establishment rebels who don't answer to The Man on college campuses today, you have to go to a meeting of the College Republicans. They are rebelling against at least 99 percent of their professors.

Ann Coulter

#83. Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.

Jesse Jackson

#84. I think Republicans forgot how to communicate with the American people.

Andrea Tantaros

#85. In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

Rand Paul

#86. The only possible reason the Republicans have declared a war on women is they must think women have oil.

Andy Borowitz

#87. My family was not Republicans. I'm the youngest. I came to this party based upon choice.

Kevin McCarthy

#88. There isn't a lot of honesty when it comes to discussing Obamacare. Too many Republicans lie about the implications of the health-insurance program and dismiss out of hand the reasons a massive overhaul of the long-time system is necessary.

Kurt Eichenwald

#89. What worries me is that I am not sure any of the Republicans, or any Democrat, is ready to 'go to the mats.' And, ergo, I am concerned that our current leaders are simply incapable of creating a winning war strategy.

Rick Elkin

#90. It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

Calvin Jillson

#91. I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

Woodrow Wilson

#92. By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

Felicity Huffman

#93. When you're a political leader, when you represent the entire state or the entire country, not just Republicans or not just Democrats or not just the poor or not just the rich, you have to really represent everybody. No matter who contributes money, when you win, you represent everyone.

David Shuster

#94. The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.

Mark Shields

#95. The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.

Ari Fleischer

#96. What I've said about compromise, I hope to build a conservative majority so bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce the bureaucracy, and get America moving again.

Richard Mourdock

#97. Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward - like the Koch brothers - to say, 'You know what? You yokels stop talking about defaulting on the debt, because I'm going to lose a fortune!'

Bill Maher

#98. Did you hear what the Republicans have said about Hillary Clinton? They say she's too angry to be president. Hillary Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, too angry to be president. When she heard this, Hillary said, 'Oh yeah? I'll rip your throats out, you bastards.'

David Letterman

#99. Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

Ronald Reagan

#100. The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

Morley Safer